Tag: Jamuary 2021
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Jamuary 12, 2021 – Pachebel’s Canon – World Instruments
This one was fun. Today’s challenge was “Pachebel’s Canon”. You more than likely know the song as it’s played at just about every wedding these days, or least a good number of them. So, the obvious question to this version would be: what would be different? As you can tell, I took some leeway with…
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Jamuary 11, 2021 – Hand Claps
This one was supposed to be easy and, to an extent, it was. However, There were many times I tried overcomplicating what should’ve been a straight ahead track. Today’s challenge was to utilize only claps and clapping, which seemed simple enough given my percussion background. Not only that, but I’ve toyed around with these sounds…
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Jamuary 10, 2021 – A cappella – Baroom
Today’s track is another melody that has been bouncing around in my head for a while but I’ve never committed to it. Today I did. Today’s challenge was “A cappella” which is normally at least a gorup of people using only their voices. Now, to me, that sounds like beat boxing by another name, as…
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Jamuary 9, 2021 – Long Pauses – A long way from where I was born
I’m a little bit proud of this track as it came together quite easily. Long pauses. My first thought was to use Ancient Greek musical fragments as those were chock full of long pauses, mostly due to their fragmentary nature. (There are some folks who have tried to reconstruct those sounds with some success.) But,…
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Jamuary 6, 2021 – Polyrhythm – Hand Claps and Stamps
Another simple, straight-forward, use-what-I-have-and-know, beat, this one is titled “Hands Claps and Stamps” because that’s what makes up the track. I feel like I’m cheating a little bit on this track (again) because it’s very similar to the very first track I did on January 1. Further, years ago I recorded an album’s worth of…